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evilness

evilness noun: the quality or state of being evil.

Noun

evilness (countable and uncountable, plural evilnesses)

  1. The quality or state of being evil.
    • […] they lament the evilness and malice of evil men, and pray God for the evil, that he will convert them from their evilness and malice, and so make them good of evil men.1808, Legh Richmond, The Fathers of the English Church

evilness meaning in Tamil, Malayalam and Indonesian

evilness in Tamil

கொட்டம்

evilness in Malayalam

evilness
ധൂമ്രം dhūmraṁ

evilness in Indonesian

of or relating to evil
kekejaman, kejahatan

Synonyms of evilness

Forms of evilness

pluralevilnesses

Origin of evilness

From Middle English yvelnesse, from Old English yfelnyss; equivalent to evil + -ness.

Questions about evilness

What does evilness mean?
Evilness means the quality or state of being evil.
What is evilness in Tamil?
Evilness in Tamil is கொட்டம். See Evilness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is evilness?
Evilness is a noun.
What is the plural of evilness?
The plural of evilness is evilnesses.

Words near evilness in the dictionary

  1. evilize
  2. evill
  3. eviller
  4. evillest
  5. evilly
  6. evilness
  7. evilnesses
  8. evilology
  9. evilous
  10. evils
  11. evilution

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Adapted from Wiktionary: evilness (page history and authors); evilness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ധൂമ്രം (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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